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The film is about efforts undertaken during the Great Depression to boost the morale of the country. It is essentially a vehicle for a string of vaudeville acts and a few musical numbers. The film is best known for providing the first big breakthrough role for legendary child actress Shirley Temple. A little known bit player before the film, by ...
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Sounder is a 1972 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt and adapted by Lonne Elder III from the 1969 novel by William H. Armstrong. [4] The story concerns an African-American sharecropper family in the Deep South, who struggle with economic and personal hardships during the Great Depression.
The Hays Code and the end of the Pre-Code era In response to a number of scandals in the 1920s, the studios adopted a series of guidelines known as the "Hays Code", after its creator Will H. Hays . Hays was the head of the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association, which would later be renamed as the Motion Picture Association of ...
Honkytonk Man is a 1982 American musical western comedy-drama film set in the Great Depression. Clint Eastwood, who produced and directed, stars with his son, Kyle Eastwood. Clancy Carlile's screenplay is based on his 1980 novel of the same name. This was Marty Robbins' last appearance before he died.
During the Great Depression, Godfrey Smith lives with other homeless men at a New York City dump in a Hooverville by the East River. One night, spoiled socialite Cornelia Bullock offers him $5 to be her "forgotten man" for a scavenger hunt. Godfrey refuses and makes her retreat and fall on a pile of ashes, much to the glee of her younger sister ...
What We Do in the Shadows may be over for good, but its cast members will always have the memories — and a few souvenirs they took from the set. “I took a lot,” Harvey Guillén, who played ...
Fools' Parade is a 1971 American crime drama [1] period film directed by Andrew McLaglen, [2] starring James Stewart and George Kennedy, with supporting roles by Strother Martin, [3] Kurt Russell, William Windom, Mike Kellin and Anne Baxter.